Samsung Story Station 1.5tb

I've been using this as my external for a few months, but I have an issue with it I can't work out.

After 5 minutes of inactivity, it goes into power saving mode. I can't figure out how to disable this, and its not a huge issue, but I keep a lot of files on it and often move them to and from it. Also my music is on there, so if I were to play a song off my computer, pause and wait 5 minutes, I have to wait for the drive to come out of standby again

google is not being my friend :( anyone have tips?

Looks like it's a feature ... http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/samsung...er-95-20091015/ :blink: As in, it seems like it's the hardware rather than configuration.

In the absence of any other info or ideas, the only suggestion I have is to knock up a program, even a noddy script, that accessed the drive (just a simple file access) periodically ... i.e. every 4:30-ish! Not great - but it would be almost zero overhead.

Hm, thanks I guess I can just throw together something in mSL

I'm gonna do it here :lol:

on *:START: {
.timer 44640 270 writeini -c fileaccess.ini 
}

Looks like that should write a blank file ever 4:30 for about a month every time I open mIRC :lol:

Be in interesting to know if that 'keep alive' works.

in theory it should, I'll test it out now

on *:START: {
 .timer 44640 270 /writeini -n D:\file.ini test test test
}

works, it'll just keep overwriting that file over and over, lovely. :) thanks for the script idea

Great :)

By the looks of that article we're gonna see far more drives implementing that sort of circuitry so it's useful to know how to maintain 'constant on' if you need to.